Abdulrahman El-Sayed: The Reckless Folly of Ellsberg's "Will Dropouts Save...
In a reckless opinion piece in this Sunday's New York Times entitled "Will Dropouts Save America?" Michael Ellsberg argues that higher education robs students of crucial skills that promote success in...
View ArticleWSJ names editorial staff for CFO Journal
Michael Hickins, who has been editing the WSJ Professional edition, has been named editor of the CFO Journal, according to a posting on the Wall Street Journal’s website.
View ArticleNYT media reporter joining metro desk
Dick Stevenson, the politics editor at the New York Times, sent out the following staff announcement on Wednesday:.
View ArticleScientists Shatter Internet Speed Record
Scientists and researchers have set a new Internet speed record by managing to transfer data at a sustained rate of 186 gigabits per second (Gbps), a rate equivalent to moving two million gigabytes --...
View ArticleVC Reveals Everything You Need To Do To Land Investors For Your Startup
Tom Kinnear has been involved as an investor, board member, or founder in starting 11 companies -- five of them with a combined exit value around $700 million.
View ArticleAdvertising: BMW Promotes Its Tagline to Its Slogan
BMW, the German maker of luxury vehicles, is using “the ultimate driving machine” as the slogan in its 2012 advertising campaign.
View ArticleObama On The Air
President Obama is set to speak to a University of Michigan audience in Ann Arbor Friday, but first he had some words for a southeast Michigan radio audience.
View ArticleObama’s disappointing college plan
You probably don’t think President Obama’s new college affordability initiative will leave students with more debt than they incur today. But you’d be wrong.
View ArticleUniversity of Michigan Bentley Historical Library Receives $1 Million...
ANN ARBOR, Mich. , Feb. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The University of Michigan's (U-M) Bentley Historical Library has received a gift from the Meijer Foundation of $1 million to endow the...
View ArticleAdvertising: Jaguar Ad Campaign Highlights Its Wild Side
The new commercials feature mostly black-and-white footage of old-fashioned or bulky machines, contrasted with a Jaguar car that roars to life.
View ArticleNumbers show that newspapers are indeed doing more with less
A chart making the rounds this week showed that annual newspaper advertising revenue has fallen from a high of more than $60 billion around 2000 to about $20 billion in 2011. Stunning, yes.
View Article5 projects take different approaches to promote fact-checking, fight...
This week a different kind of hack day took place at the MIT Media Lab.
View ArticleMike Wallace (1918-2012) Was Close To Having A Print Background
An early-1940s job of Wallace’s after he graduated from the University of Michigan was working on the Chicago Sun’s (now Sun-Times ’) radio station. That was a springboard to a broadcasting career that...
View ArticleTwo startups aim to make higher education more affordable — or free
Higher education costs have skyrocketed by over 430 percent since the 1980s. Now two startups aim to make college courses more affordable. Coursera offers free online courses from universities like...
View ArticleTop U.S. colleges to offer free classes online
(Reuters) - Five prestigious U. S. universities will create free online courses for students worldwide through a new, interactive education platform dubbed Coursera, the founders announced Wednesday.
View ArticleJournalism passages this week: Deaths, births, job changes
REST IN PEACE • Five journalists are presumed dead in a jet crash in Indonesia: “Femi Adi, a reporter for Bloomberg Market; Dody Aviantara, a journalist for the monthly Angkasa magazine; Didik Nur...
View ArticleRegulators, investors turn up heat over Facebook IPO
(Reuters) - Two top U. S. financial regulators said on Tuesday the issues around the initial public offering of Facebook should be reviewed, putting fresh pressure on the company, its lead underwriter,...
View ArticleThe Times-Picayune announces it will cut print schedule back to 3 days; a new...
Th New Orleans Times-Picayune this morning, reacting to a story in the New York Times by media reporter David Carr, confirmed that it was reducing its print schedule to three days. Ashton Phelps, Jr. ,...
View ArticleAs Newspapers Cut, Analysts Ask if Readers Will Remain
Some daily newspapers are cutting printing and delivery schedules and shifting their emphasis to the Web, but industry analysts warned that such moves might alienate once-loyal readers.
View ArticleHow do you tell when the news is biased? It depends on how you see yourself
Take a moment with the headlines from this screenshot of The New York Times homepage from January. Really — it’s a little experiment. Click the image above for a larger view if you need to.
View ArticleWeather Channel buys Weather Underground; brand stays
The largest weather news and information provider is about to get bigger. The Weather Channel Companies (TWCC), parent of the cable network and weather. com, is acquiring San Francisco-based Weather...
View ArticleWhat’s next for newspapers?
Not so very long ago, the newspaper business was a snap: Build the largest possible audience, sell the most possible ads, charge the highest possible rates, print the fattest possible papers and pump...
View ArticleDick Costolo says Twitter is a reinvention of the town square — but with TV
Twitter chief executive Dick Costolo gave a lecture earlier this week at his alma mater — the University of Michigan — where he talked to students from the Ford School of Public Policy about how the...
View ArticleTwitter CEO Dick Costolo on how it reinvented the ‘Agora’: the Digital Town hall
Interesting speech here by Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, speaking recently at the University of Michigan, where he makes his case about how Twitter unlike previous generations of technology (okay Google)...
View ArticleJohn Merwin, Prominent Angler and Editor, Dies at 66
Mr. Merwin lived to fish and chronicle it. An editor and writer for Field & Stream, he also founded Rod & Reel magazine and wrote a number of critically acclaimed books.
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